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Ed Balls stretches credulity by claiming he isn’t ambitious…
“I would love to be part of Ed’s Labour government but what I do next for me is not an all-consuming passion. I’m more bothered, in a personal sense, about getting to grade 8 piano by the time I’m 50.”
Bill Quango MP says:
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
The bedwetter’s won’t like it.
Apostrophe ‘s’? FFS.
Might have been funny last week! … but probably not.
That’s the joke. The bus is late. Laugh? I nearly watched Matt Lucas.
Passenger: Does this bus go to Wapping?
Conductor: No.
Passenger: But it says Wapping on the front.
Conductor: There’s an advertisement for Ken on the side, but he’s still a tax dodging, hypocritical fecker!
A very high percentage of my hard earned money goes to my selected charity.
It pays for my Defence, my Health, my Education, my Culture.
It will pay for my Pension when I get old.
It goes toward making my country the best in the world.
Have you guessed what it is yet?
Tell us Aunt Mat. What is your selected charity?
Keep guessing.
Everybody gets a prize!
Mat dear, it must be either you or UKIP (which seems to be the flavour of the month on this site
Timothy Spall?
A very good try Airey,
And for that, you get a prize!
Next time you are feeling poorly, present yourself at an NHS hospital and claim your free treatment for life.
Keep guessing boys and girls.
Is it North Korea?
Good boy Durr..
Sometimes it feels like North Korea, spending my “charity” money on damp squibs.
Well done for trying.
Present your child at your local state school and ask for “an education”.
Tell them that I sent you.
OK… who is it?
I think it is supposed to be Humpty Johnson, I could be wrong though
Chris Gr!ff!n from Family Guy?
When Ken loses, will they make him Lord Livingstone of Peckham?
Either way London deserves better than those two clowns.
Agreed
If he get’s in Lord Livingscum of Londonistan.
Ken boy has no chance of becoming a lord anything under Cammers and co would not make much difference in anycase he would be in name only NOT a “working” peer even under Liebore
Rich & Mark make an intelligent cartoon – Get over it.
Is that a London Bus?
Yes – entropy isn’t what it used to be…
You’re right, it’s getting bigger all the time.
It’s nice out innit?
I think I’ll get mine out as well.
I think I’ll get mine out too in that case.
Where are you keeping it? – and leave that sheep alone.
But it won’t be forever.
Come off it folks. I thought that was quite good by R&M’s standards. The joke was clever, the person in front is obviously Bozza and vehicle behind is obviously a Circle Line tube train.
Once more, R&M totally miss the point. It’d not minimising tax legally that is Ken’s problem, it’s his cynical, opportunistic hypocrisy that everybody’s wound up about. 4/10, do again.
I agree with you that it’s Ken’s hypocrisy which is the problem, but don’t expect tax avoidance itself to get an easy ride. So many politicians, even Tories, now confuse avoidance and evasion (i would say on purpose) in order to justify raising taxes.
Leninslime and others like him create bogus companies to avoid the PAYE system.
Many voters are salaried, and caught in the PAYE net. Try running his form of ‘expenses’ past your local tax inspector.
Few voters can ever enjoy the delights of an expense system which allowed kitchens and home improvements for MPs. A supine media allowed them to get away with it – the duck house story is one which is remembered not the systematic abuse by cabinet ministers – Blair’s expenses were conveniently shredded – nothing to fear, nothing to hide.
What we don’t need is the great wanker, George Osbore continually cocking up – get a new Chamcellor Dave, ffs.
After that one eyed scots bar steward wrecking the economy and screwing the working classes on behalf of benefit scroungers for 13 years Osbourne is a refreshing change.
At least he’s trying to get us on an even keel as opposed to the other shower whose main purpose seems to have been to fuxk us up completely.
“At least he’s trying to get us on an even keel”
Yes, but by 2015 our national debt will be 40% higher than it was in 2010.
Errrr, what is Gideon’s qualification for the job of chancellor, that is if qualifications actually matter, ok he was Cammers best mate and a member of the Bullingdon Club, went to Oxford University and went to Eton College, he is probably very vunerable to advice by a group of select friends in the same way McBroon was advised. I think that people get “good ideas” but DO NOT think of the consequences of their good ideas.
Osborne didn’t go to Eton. It’s just a little detail but it does detract somewhat from the ‘Osborne is an old school chum of Cammers’ line of attack put out by the bedwetters.
Im free (well actualy quite xpensive)
If the labour trolls sent here by Baldwin can’t even get a little detail like where Osborne went to school right, what hope for them running the economy
Wahtever the connection it wories me a tad that Chancellors seem to be ungetriddable certainly since Broon. I say he (Frogspawn) isn’t and should be eithr moved to the Dept. of Paperclips or the backbench pronto, ‘cos he is a right tit.
Fookin ell – I recognise the person in this – but what the hell has Peter Stringfellow got to do with tax avoidance!!!
Mr Stringfellow likes to be kissed before he is fucked.
oooh, ‘ark at ‘er.
But I didn’t bother kissing everyone in the UK before……
The ideal choice for Mayor of a great financial centre like London would be a self-serving alcoholic communist like Boris Yeltsin, but I just can’t think of anyone.
Boris Yeltsin might have been …errrr…a thirsty chap but his role in breaking up Soviet Russia and freeing the people from the tyranny of socialism should not be down-played.
But if it’s a self-serving alki communist you’re looking for I think London tried that and threw the fucker out.
I match all those criteria, just change Alki to Perv, and I’m your man. I would also be able to conduct business from Grand Lodge, thereby saving the taxpayer even more money, together with a massive increase of asylum seekers, making us all rich. Boaz
But Boris Yeltsin got pissed and fell asleep while the Russian mafia and other crooks helped themselves to the Russia’s assets, who then moved to London to be safe and to cosy up with Mandelson & co.
Little wonder that Putin is more popular than one might otherwise expect.
Is it Michael Fabricant?
Passenger: Does this bus go to London?
Conductor: No.
Passenger: But it says London on the front.
Conductor: There’s an advertisement for Ken on the side, but he’s still a tax dodging, hypocritical f*cker!
Boris isn’t fat.
We he is around the head area.
Let us say he’s big-boned.
and a big boner.
Like a nob head you mean?
A £10m Bounty? Where does Lord Ahmed do his shopping? I get a whole box of Bounty and Mars bars from Patel’s Cash & Carry for just a tenner.
John, haven’t I seen you in the ads for Bounty paper towels?
Pity he was’t in that rowing boat with Captain Bligh!
See the BBC have buried the Ahmed story already.
So they have. It was up at number three about a half hour ago but I suppose too many people were waking up and logging on so it had to go.
A BBC spokesperson said ‘We did not ‘bury’ the story. It was covered across the range of our output, in this case from 0300 top 0730 on the Monday morning on our website.”
Back again – at number 2 this time. Must have been re-writing the content to down-play the significance. But, what is this? Fuck me – it even mentions ‘Labour peer’ in the first sentence.
What BBC aberration is this? What has the noble Lord said or done to deserve such treatment? Has the BBC made the connection between Bush and Blair?
Hi!
Couldn’t help but hear my name mentioned! – always glad to hear that! And yes, – me and George were on first name terms – he needed me as a counterweight!
Anyway, – must rush! – Cherry has got the bacon going in the fry pan and is shouting something about the toast burning
No. Someone is off message.
He won’t get sacked. They will simply send him to stationery department to design a nice envelope.
How many Porsches in Greece?
http//www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17702226
on 50,000 a year.
Greece is still the land of the myth.
Too bad the BBC isn’t so keen on fact-checking the global-warming myths. Or the economic insanity of subsidising the installation of Photo-voltaic panels in the UK. Or windmills for that matter.
Fact-check that you c*unts.
I see its on Drudge. That should help put the wind up the Lord.
I think he should be extradited under Labour’s shoddy Treaty.
Don’t give Drudge any more plugs until he links to Guido.
and the Telegraph as well
What a good idea – and he can take his Jaguar with him.
Hmm.. I wonder what word discombobulated our modulatorbot?? Must check back later.
Blimey, that was almost funny!
RichJohnston cartoon misses the Mark?
Guido your blog is razor-sharp on politics. But these cartoons are like wet cardboard. Sorry to point this out.
He gets more comments because they are naff.
Doh! We give him more clicks and page loads.
He’s cleverer than me!
Why do you think he let Saturday’s abortion row carry on for a couple of hundred clicks?
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Why do you think he let Saturday’s ab0rtion row carry on for a couple of hundred clicks?
Was that the row which saw a number of idiots on here repeating the palpable lie of the left that women give birth to their own bodies ?
Try being razor sharp when you’ve spent fecking hours in a cellar with Hair Bear tweeting away like a masturbating chimp.
I think you will find that the correct term is
“Wanking like a demented chimpanzee”
Most zoos have lots of them
Any cartoon comment about Ken requires a “bendy” bus, not a routemaster shirley!
…and stop calling me surely.
That doesn’t look like a routemaster to me. either the old one, or the one that Boris got his mates to design.
Looks like the kind of double decker that’s good enough for the rest of the country.
Has to be a Bristol. Boris always has a thing for Bristols.
Correction:-
Bristol is best known for ” The Bristol Stool Scale ” qv.
As that item gets more mentions on here than any other aspect of human life, I’m surprised that you weren’t aware of that.
Was that a U tube offering?
I say chaps!! – we’ve simply GOT to show we’re PROGRESSIVE like Boris – watt?
For instance, – one has got a simply super wheeze to stop those dashed traditional types whining about Wind Farms !! – watt?
Some delightful artist chappy says he can repaint an old picture of a yokel in a pond with a horse called ‘The Hay Wayne’ – says he can put a Wind Farm in the background, – and says he’ll try and get an housing estate in as well! – watt?
My chum Tristram Fullbore-Cholmondeley who lives round those parts agrees the locals would be dashed well impressed! – watt?
Some people dodge humour !
“Nice try Skid @ Mark Get over it”
Morning mate!
How are those bronze mines. Been up ‘em recently?
Mornin’ miss, now do one.
Hi mate bit late but i’ve had to go out and work !
There will be another one along in a minute.
Some people dodge tax. I dodge taxis. Cabbies are really shockingly bad drivers, aren’t they?
And some Labour peers.
Wasn’t Ahmed jailed for dangerous driving a few years ago after admitting texting while driving down the M1- I think a bloke died?
texting journalists.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/25/lord-ahmed-dangerous-driving
something about victimisation.
Clearly not fit to shovel shit.
My son-in-law arrived on the hard shoulder at the accident scene on the M1 just after Ahmed’s Jag ploughed into the immigrant bloke who’d gone across the carriage-way to retrieve his mobile phone from his vehicle. Son-in-law attempted to give emergency help but it was too late. It was Christmas Day afternoon, by the way. Ahmed was indeed texting as he crashed. By the way, Anonymous, please fuck off and let someone else hog this blog. You’ve been doing it too long. It’s time to get a life, as they used to say.
Taxis avoid me.
New shock absorbers don’t buy themselves you know.
Plus all the panel damage at the front. And it would probably set-off the airbags, and they’re expensive to get refitted.
lad to bus conductor: return please
conductor: where to?
lad: back here of course
Mr Plonker: shurely the name of the horse is “The hay wain”. As painted by Constable.
Does anyone remember (or even better, have a link to) a short animated film from the 1970s, which starts with Constable’s Hay Wain but then it’s redeveloped – someone shoots the dog, a truck tows away the horse and cart, Lott’s cottage is demolished, cranes app*ear on the horizon and Dave’s HS2 railway is bulldozed through the middle (OK, I made the last bit up)?
I’ve been looking for it on YouTube but it doesn’t seem to be there.
That’s because YouTube wasn’t invented when Constable painted it, silly.
I knew someone would say that.
If it was redone today it would be necessary to put militwit on the (band)waggon.
If it was done today it would not be as aesthetically pleasing due to the prominence of the wind farm in the picture.
British taxpayers should get priority in the social housing queue over new migrants, David Cameron’s poverty tsar has said.
Frank Field called for the shake-up after a study revealed up to half of all social housing lets are given to those born abroad.
At the same time, nearly five million families are languishing on waiting lists for subsidised housing in England.
Didn’t Blair tell Frank Field to think the unthinkable with regard to social welfare? I seem to remember he did so Blair sacked him. This probably goes down the same lines, it’ll never happen.
“British taxpayers should get priority in the social housing queue over new migrants”
David Cameron needs a “poverty tsar” to hold a “study” to conclude what any right-minded person would have said instantly?
FFS.
Dave thought Maggie was addressing him when she said ” U turn if you want to”
Why doesn’t Boris fuck off out of our lives, the interfering Turkish buffoon?
Bloody ‘ell: A blond Turkish buffoon with a speech impelfediment in his perfect English. Whatever next?
@bbcnickrobinson via Twitter
Has anyone made case that better for rich to pay tax for NHS etc than to make tax free donations to charities – opera etc? Blog coming soon
“People should not be allowed to choose how their own money is spent” – Nick Robinson.
What a tw@t.
That’ll ‘conflict’ the bedwetters. Tax for the NHS or charity for opera? They know that charity for private education is ‘bad’. But charity donations for opera? That’ll do their fucking heads in.
Subsidising luvvies or subsidising the NHS?
I think, on balance, faced with such a dilemma, they’ll probably set up a series of tax-efficient shell companies and fake charities and keep their money for themselves.
The Press are now putting it about that Dave and the Gang are coming under pressure from charity donors to reinstate their tax breaks.
Noticeably you do not hear a word from the recipients of all their largesse because by the time all the pigs in the charitable troughs have been fed there is sweet diddly squat left.
The old devil dodgers are now getting in on the act and whinging now that they are being charged 20% Vat.
About time too I say .
Nice one Dave. Stand up to these greedy self centred bastards.
We are all in this together.
This shambling fool has ridden more bikes than buses
I will say one thing in his favour
At least he has the common decency to pay for the murder of his nborn offspring
Unlike Ken Pond life